Photo London 2025 with Dale Grant & Deni Horvatić

Photo London 2025 with Dale Grant and Deni Horvatić

Photo London brings the finest international photography to the British capital every year. The Fair presents the best historic and vintage works while also spotlighting fresh perspectives in photography. Along with a selection of the world’s leading photography dealers and galleries, Photo London’s Discovery section is dedicated to the most exciting emerging galleries and artists.

At Photo London 2025, we are presenting at the Discovery section the internationally acclaimed artists Dale Grant and Deni Horvatić, celebrating the 10th anniversary of Photo London with a compelling exhibition titled “Beauty of Nature.”

Dale Grant has embarked on a unique artistic journey to capture the beauty in decay. For him, flowers represent a profound allegory of life. The artist sees flowers not only as colourful creatures, but also as a symbol of the cycle of life – from youth to wilting, from radiance to transience. In his ongoing series “FADING BEAUTY”, Dale Grant reveals the true and unique beauty of flowers as they begin to wither. The petals unfold completely and their vibrant colours become more muted until they finally become transparent and fragile. The incoming light penetrates the petals, giving the photographs a mesmerising texture and form. Dale Grant’s approach to flower portraits is similar to his approach to human portraits. He studies his models carefully before shooting them and considers the cycle of life as a fascinating motif. In his eyes, ageing represents a form of beauty that he discovers in all its facets, even in the most wrinkled faces.

Further, one work from Deni Horvatić‘s “SCAN” series shall be shown. In his life-size photographs of scenes from everyday life, the artist minimises the distance between the environment and the people portrayed by choosing a particular angle of view: Shot from below, the images hide as much as they reveal. His work ‘Accident 1/6’ shows a lawnmower from below; at first glance, the viewer only sees the green grass, the lawnmower and the two feet of the mower. It is only at second glance that the fingers of a hand and a small red crown cap are revealed – what is the accident? Has it already happened? Or is it just a warning from the artist to the viewer?

Together, Grant and Horvatić’s works engage in a thought-provoking dialogue on nature’s cyclical transformation. While Grant’s fading flowers symbolize the passage of time, Horvatić’s scene suggests both destruction and renewal, illustrating the perpetual rebirth of nature.

Dale Grant

Dale Grant (*1961 in Nassau, Bahamas) followed his heart after graduating from university with a degree in International Relations and became a photographer specialising in fashion and portrait photography. After working as a commercial photographer for many years, he turned to fine art photography. Flowers are now his favourite models, which for him are an allegory for life.

The artist began photographing flowers a few years ago in New York, simply out of a desire to explore something new. He not only photographed fresh cut flowers, but also those that were at the end of their life cycle. Through this experience, Dale Grant discovered the beauty in the falling petals that fell to the ground, and he recognised in them a reflection of life and death as it is also found in our own existence.

His works can be found in many art collections and his work has been shown in numerous exhibitions in Germany and The Netherlands.

Dale Grant lives in Berlin and Rotterdam.

Deni Horvatić

Deni Horvatić was born in Čakovec, Croatia, in 1991. His artistic practice includes photography as well as video art and CGI. He worked for several years at Studio Silvio Vujičić and at the fashion brand E.A.1/1 S.V. as a researcher and head of communication and visual design.

Since 2019 he has been working with the Croatian fashion brand XD Xenia Design. He won the Marina Viculin Award for outstanding achievements in Croatian photography, established by the international photography organisation Organ Vida. His SCAN series was shown in Zagreb in 2020 and in 2022 he participated in the 36th Youth Salon, the largest and most prestigious exhibition event for visual artists under 35 in Croatia. At nüüd.berlin gallery SCAN was presented in a solo exhibition in 2022 and in the group exhibition NUIT 2.0; new works from this series were shown as a solo presentation at UNSEEN Amsterdam 2023 and photo basel 2024 as well as in the group exhibition “Uncanny” at nüüd.berlin gallery in 2024. More works have been presented at PhotoBrussels Festival 2025.

Deni Horvatić lives and works in Čakovec, Croatia.